Wiring A Fan With Light

Wiring ceiling fan and light with one switch this method allows you to turn on the fan and the light from one single wall switch cutting out the necessity to use the pull chain every time you want to adjust the fan.

Wiring a fan with light.

Switched outlet wiring diagram. Twist all the white wires in the box together and cap them. The blue wire is the hot wire for the ceiling fan light fixture. Connect the black and blue wires coming out of your fan.

The wiring diagram above is for typical installation wiring light is switched the fan is powered by a pull chain once you have found and identified all of the wires on your fan and in your electrical box you can get to work on connecting them. Twist the copper ends of the black and blue wires together like you did with the previous wires. Jan 24 18 02 09 pm. Attach the ceiling fan s light kit wiring to the wiring harness hanging beneath the fan motor.

This will allow you to control your fan and lights with a single switch. Connect the green copper wires together. Make a pigtail of the ground wire using two 6 inch lengths of bare wire and connect one ground wire to the fan switch and one to the light switch. The ground should be coming off of your frame.

Remember that the hot black or red wire goes to the brass colored screw neutral white to the silver screw. This wiring diagram illustrates the connections for a ceiling fan and light with two switches a speed controller for the fan and a dimmer for the lights. Wire a switched outlet. The source is at the switches and the input of each is spliced to the black source wire with a wire nut.

Connect white wires together. Want to turn a lamp on with a light switch. From the switches 3 wire cable runs to the ceiling outlet box. Step by step instructions on how to wire a switched outlet.

Mount the light kit to the motor by tightening the mounting screws. If there is a bare ground wire in the fixture often found in ceiling fans and exterior fixtures twist it together with the ground wire from the cable and put a wire nut on it. If you want to run both the light and fan on one switch twist the blue and black wire from the unit together. Install the lamp globes and light.

For this you ll need three twist on wire connectors. Hook the neutral and ground wires first. Find the short green wire or the green ground screw on your ceiling fan hanging. Connect the black and blue wires in your fan if you only have 1 switch.

Connect the red wire from the fan to the other terminal on the fan switch and the black wire to the light switch. The ceiling fan motor does not have a ground wire.